Word: inched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exact calculation shows that if we had five trillion cables of steel, each a foot in diameter and the steel capable of lifting thirty tons to the square inch of the cross section, this whole giant forest of steel cable would be stretched to the breaking point to hold the moon in its orbit about the earth. To hold the earth in its orbit about the sun would require an 11-inch cable of such steel on each square foot of hemispherical cross section of our globe, which practically would cover the earth's surface with such a forest...
Announcement came out of England that the shipbuilding firm of William Denny & Brothers, of Dumbarton, Scotland, was to build an experimental ship whose propulsive steam would be retained in water-tube boilers capable of sustaining a pressure of 550 Ibs. to the square inch - more than twice the steam pressure of any steam installation used aboard ship today. This announcement, though it followed close upon the heels of a paper read by a famed engineer before the British Institution of Naval Engineering suggesting that steam turbines could be developed with pressures hitherto undreamed of, might have attracted little notice...
...motion of censure against the British Empire was introduced. Extremist Harry Pollitt again rose to his feet, "The Empire means Lord Curzon or Lord Reading riding elephants! . . . It means appalling conditions in India, where workers have to be doped with opium before they will go down the mines . . . Every inch of the Empire is drenched with blood...
...spring of this year Glenn Frank signed a contract with us agreeing to write a daily editorial for news- papers, beginning in the fall. We instructed a news-clipping bureau to send us all press notices. . . . and were inundated with clippings, from full-page feature pages to two-inch news-items-ELEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-FOUR up to date and more still coming." Appended was a list of the newspapers which had already subscribed for the daily editorial together with statement-made in strict accordance with the U. S. mode of measuring a man by his earning capacity...
Cancer Cinema. Experimental microphotography was progressing toward a point where a cinema film would be made of the life-cycle of the minute organism that causes cancer, but recently discovered (TIME, July 27, MEDICINE). Already pictures had been made of bodies one 250-thousandth of an inch in diameter (one-third the size of any of the microscope-aided eye had ever seen). The short-waved ultraviolet ray will some day be made to carry images of bodies one 500-thousandths of an inch and smaller, by making the photographs in a vacuum.? Mr. J. E. Barnard, hatter-scientist...